Italian Immigration To Mexico - Notable Italo-Mexicans

Notable Italo-Mexicans

• Tina Modotti Model, fotographer
• Manuel María Lombardini, Mexican general and politician and 21st President of Mexico.
• Juan Bottesini, maestro
• Jared Borgetti, all-time leading goal scorer for the Mexican national football team
• Caesar Cardini, inventor of Caesar salad
• Sasha Montenegro, Mexican-Italian born actress.
• Arcangel Constantini, contemporary artist,hardware hacker working with science and technology .
• Manuel Neri, American-born artist to Mexican parent of Italian descent.
• Rodolfo Neri Vela, Engineer and astronaut.
• Giuseppe Garibaldi II, Italian soldier who helped Mexico for Mexican Revolution; grandson of his namessake.
• Carmen Romano, First Lady of Mexico from 1976 - 1982.
• Maite Perroni, Mexican actress and singer.
• Francisco Romano Guillemin, Mexican artist of Italian descent.
• Sergio Pitol Demeneghi, writer
• Bernard Stasi, French politician (Italo-Mexican-French)
• Betty Zanolli Fabila, pianist
• Alejandro Ciangherotti, Mexican actor
• Aldo de Nigris, soccer player
• Antonio de Nigris, soccer player
• Nadia Di Cello, Mexican-born Argentine actress of Italian descent.
• Adolfo Dollero, Italian-born of Mexican historian.
• Carina Ricco, Mexican actress, singer, musician, and composer.
• Adolfo Gilly, author, professor of History and Political Science.
• Itatí Cantoral, Mexican-Argentine actress to Argentine mother of Italian descent and Mexican father.
• Nicky Mondellini, Italian-born Mexican Actress.
• Dionisio Pérez-Jácome Friscione, Mexican politician.
• Fernando Ciangherotti, Mexican television soap opera actor.
• Susana Pagano, Mexican author of novels.
• Manuel Valdés, Mexican actor and comedian.
• Alicia Gironella D'Angeli, Mexican chef and published cook books.
• Oscar Morelli, Mexican actor.
• Francesca Gargallo, Italian-born Mexican writer and poet.
• Antonio DeMarco, professional boxer of Italian descent.
• Mónica Dossetti, Mexican actress.
• Ambra Polidori, Mexican artist.
• Cristhian Presichi, Mexican professional baseball.
• Alfonso de Nigris, Mexican actor and model.
• Adela Navarro Bello, Mexican journalist.
• Germán Valdés, actor, singer and comedian.
• Uberto Zanolli, composer and writer
• Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor.
• Martinez del Rio family, Piedmont and Milan
• Osvaldo Batocletti, Argentine-born Mexican football manager and former player of Italian ancestry.
• Victoria Ruffo, Mexican Actress.
• Mireille Roccatti, Mexican scholar and jurist.
• Itatí Zucchi, Argentine-born Mexican actress of Italian descent and mother of Itatí Cantoral.
• Montserrat Olivier, Mexican actress, television presenter and former fashion model.
• Riccardo Dalmacci, Italian-born Mexican actor of film and telenovelas.
• Antonio Attolini Lack, Mexican architect.
• Luz María Zetina, Mexican Actress and former Miss Mexico Universe.
• Alberto Agnesi, Mexican Actor.
• Eder Borelli, Mexican football defender of Italian-Argentine descent.
• Mario Pani, Mexican architect and urbanist.
• Kat Von D, tattoo artist, Mexican-born to Argentinian parent of Italian-German descent.
• Giovanni Aloi, Mexican race car driver.
• Katie Barberi, Mexican actress.
• Duilio Davino, Mexican footballer of Italian-Argentine descent.
• Flavio Davino, Mexican footballer of Italian-Argentine descent.
• Luis Miguel, pop singer
• Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor.
• Leobardo Cardini, Mexican Olympic fencer.
• Tito Guízar, Mexican singer and actor.
• Antonio Grisi, Mexican Olympic fencer.
• Fernando Ferrari-Pérez, Mexican Geographical and Exploring Commission.
• Flaviano Amatulli Valente, Italian-born Mexican priest and Catholic author.
• Ana Bárbara, Singer, Songwriter, and Actress.
• Teresa Piccini, Mexican ten-pin bowler.
• Raúl Servín, retired Mexican footballer.
• Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician, and PRI presidential candidate.
• Leona Vicario, a supporter of the Mexican War of Independence, Italian descent.
• Michelle Arvizu, television and film actress.
• Rubén Omar Romano, Argentine Mexican coach and former football player of Italian descent.
• Emilio Amero, Mexican artist.
• Xavier Massimi, Mexican actor.
• Martín Boasso, Argentine naturalized Mexican footballer of Italian descent.
• Carlos Torre Repetto, Mexican chess grandmaster.
• Fabio Morabito, Mexican writer and poet.
• Salvador Toscano, was Mexico's first filmmaker of director, producer and distributor of early Mexican cinema films.
• Ángeles Mastretta, Mexican author and journalist.
• Rafael Velasco, Mexican film/television actor of Italian descent.
• Rodolfo Usigli, Mexican playwright.
• Vicente Matías Vuoso, Argentine-born Mexican football striker of Italian descent.
• Vanessa Zambotti, Mexican judoka.
• Carlos Panini, wealthy Mexican businessman of Italian origin.
• Daniel Mastretta, Mexican engineer and designer.
• Cesáreo Victorino, Mexican footballer.
• Jorge Volpi, Mexican author .
• Jesús Arturo Paganoni, Mexican football midfielder.
• Gabriel Retes, Mexican film actor and director.
• Rafael Mercadante, Mexican Actor, television host, singer.
• Father Kino, priest during New Spain.
• Julio Mannino, Mexican actor.
• Sebastián Rulli, Argentine-Mexican actor and model of Italian descent and married to Mexican actress, Aracely Arámbula.
• Samuel Castelán Marini, participated in the Mexican reality show La Academia and got fifth place in his season. Originally from Zentla in Veracruz.
• Leandro Augusto, soccer player to Brazilian born of naturalized Mexican.
• Dante Cusi, creator of the agricultural colonies in the state of Michoacán (Nueva Italia and Lombardia).
• Felipe Colombo, Mexican actor, more popular in Argentina but also participates in Mexican films. Started out in 1991 as a child actor along fellow Mexican actors Gael García Bernal and Ludwika Paleta.
• Alejandro Tommasi, actor.
• David Toscana Mexican writer.